Lawsuit filed against media groups on basis of cover-ups.

<body> Lawsuit Addressing Cover-Ups by Media Groups The same federal statutes and case law that justified federal lawsuits against other people and groups engaged in obstruction of justice crimes were used to file federal lawsuits against several media sources that covered up for the criminal activities that I brought to their attention and which they covered up. Admittedly, this was a highly unusual lawsuit, but the nature of the corruption occurring in government offices, the harm to the United States and its people, justified taking unusual, but legally supportable, actions. Many lives could have been saved if these lawsuits were not blocked. The main advantage of the lawsuits were to make a record of those who knew of the corruption and who covered up for it. The filing of the lawsuit and the media's response made a record of these matters. Commencing in 1965, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and other media sources, were made aware of the criminal activities and the continuing grave consequences. They could have halted the spreading corrupt activities and halted the deja vu deadly consequences if they had exercised their moral and legal responsibilities. Instead they engaged in felony cover-ups. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court at San Jose, California (Number C 89 20262 WAI), naming these newspapers as defendants. April 28, 1989. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) The basis for filing that lawsuit included: The media defendants repeatedly covered up for the corrupt and criminal activities that they had a duty under the federal crime reporting statute to report to a federal official, and their duty as newspapers to inform the public of corruption in government offices that were gravely affecting national security interests, and in some areas, such as aviation, resulting in repeated preventable deaths. The media defendants repeatedly covered up for the felony obstruction of justice by federal judges. An attempt to make a record of their responses. An attempt to report the criminal activities to a federal judge under the federal crime reporting statute. Although this and similar filings were unusual, the gravity of the criminal misconduct, the catastrophic consequences in the pasts, and the cover-ups by other government checks and balances, justified using the law in a creative manner. If these efforts had not been blocked by federal judges, the corruption that created the conditions enabling hijackers to seize four airliners on 9/11 could very probably have been prevented. And the events of 9/11 were only one-day's results from the misconduct, and in only one of the areas affected. The lawsuit was assigned to U.S. district judge Robert Aguilar, who had ruled several times against the Justice Department. Justice Department Prosecutors Then Filed Criminal Charges Against the Judge, Robert Aguilar Shortly after the lawsuit was filed and assigned to Judge Aguilar, Justice Department prosecutors charged Aguilar with using his office as a racketeering enterprise to obstruct justice. The specific acts that Aguilar allegedly committed were peanuts compared to the crimes committed by the Justice Department attorneys who filed the criminal charges against Aguilar. Aguilar had rendered decisions unfavorable to the Justice Department, and many charged that the U.S. Attorney, Joseph Russoniello at San Francisco, and the Justice Department were retaliating. The lawsuit against the newspapers that threatened to blow the lid on the entire scandal was then removed from Aguilar and assigned to another judge. Response to Lawsuit by Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal and its managing editor, Norman Pearlstein, responded (June 15, 1989). They did not dispute the relationship between the misconduct and the consequences; but that they were immune from liability, based upon the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. They argued that they did not have to print what any person requests them to print. But Stich wasn't requesting the media to print what he wanted printed. Stich expected them to exercise their responsibilities under federal law to report the serious charges, as they had a responsibility under federal law to aid in the prevention of the civil, constitutional, and the criminal offenses. July 5, 1989. (Adobe PDF) The press, and anyone else that had the ability to do so, had a responsibility under Title 42 U.S.C. § 1986 to aid in preventing the civil rights violations being perpetrated against Stich as part of the scheme to block his exposure activities. They had a responsibility under the federal crime reporting statute, Title 18 U.S.C. § 4, to bring the information of criminal activities to the attention of responsive law enforcement personnel, and they had a responsibility to their readers to make known the criminal activities that were inflicting great harm upon the lives of the people and upon national interests, including national security. They had the responsibility to at least check Stich's evidence. They had the responsibility to report his charges even if they had no information to determine their accuracy. If they had exercised their multiple responsibilities, many air tragedies--and resulting harm−could have been prevented. Denying Liability for the Consequences of Their Cover-Up The Wall Street Journal and its publisher, Norman Pearlstein argued, in effect, that they should not be required to report these charges (which would be obstructing justice), and that they should not be liable for the consequences (of their cover-ups). They implied that the liberal First Amendment freedoms given to the press eliminates any requirement to report government corruption (that undermines national interests and national security), and that the courts should protect them from the consequences. The responsibility of the media under the First Amendment was articulated in a Supreme Court decision relating to the Pentagon Papers and the New York Times publication of their content. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote in that decision: Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the Government from deceiving the people ... The New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. In revealing the workings of government ... the newspapers did precisely that which the founders hoped and trusted they would do. The Wall Street Journal, through the San Jose, California law firm of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher, filed a motion to dismiss, without challenging the allegations made in the amended complaint. June 12, 1989.(Adobe PDF) Stich responded with an opposition to dismiss. July 5, 1989. (Adobe PDF) Without a hearing, in violation of due process, the district judge dismissed the complaint against the newspapers, and despite the fact that numerous federal causes of action were stated, and that criminal misconduct was stated. (Adobe PDF) Stich didn't appeal the complaint as he accomplished the primary goal of making a judicial record of the media's complicity and their responses. Also, Stich was suffering major personal and financial problems due to the multiple legal and judicial tactics being used to silence him. Related web sites with additional information on the massive amount of corruption in the three branches of government discovered and being reported by a group of former and present government agents: Chronology of decades of corrupt activities by the CIA, U.S. politicians, and other members of the system, as described in the book, Defrauding America. Chronology of the arrogant and corrupt war on drugs--against the American people--as described in the book, Drugging America. Chronology of arrogant and corrupt activities in the deadly politics of aviation safety, as described in the book, Unfriendly Skies. Tragedies and Deaths Made Possible by Media Cover-Ups All forms of human tragedies have been inflicted upon the people of the United States from the corruption discovered by the people behind this site−and made possible by enablers in and out of government. The below pictures are only a sampling of the consequences from the documented corruption that are able to be portrayed graphically. The tragedies in other areas resulting from the corruption, cover-ups, and public indifference, are not shown here. United Airlines crash into New York City, the world's worst at that time. Withheld from the Amererica public were the reports by federal safety inspectors-investigators showing a continuing pattern of corruption, fraud, criminal alteration of major government required records−and the standard abuse of those few inspectors attempting to require the airline management to comply with industry standards and clear requirements of federal aviation safety requirements−and FAA management to require compliance. None of the guilty, the enablers, to these and the continuing fraud-related crashes ever were held accountable for the hundreds of deaths that they enabled to occur. These few examples of the horrors associated with airline disasters enabled to occur by documented corruption withheld from the American people. The standard culture of cover-ups in the United States enabled the corruption, cover-ups, to mutate into different areas. In the aviation area, although the continuing series of airline disasters eventually came to a halt for other reasons, the culture continued, and enabled to occur a number of easily preventable airline disasters. The inbred culture created the conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to easily hijack four airliners within a few hours of each other and kill nearly 3,000 people. In criminal law, people are accomplices, and guilty, if they know of a criminal act and fail to report it to proper authorities and also to take efforts within their capability to halt their continuation. And there are endless numbers of accomplices that are complicit in these crimes and enablers of the consequences. Among the "Least" Guilty of the Enablers List of print and e-books. Email address for the author and activist against corruption in government: stich@unfriendlyskies.com. 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